Re: - exceeding 32-bit counting?

So, knowing for sure that I'm on a 64bit OS, with 64bit GMT, any
suggestions on what could be causing this or how to track it down?

uname -a
Darwin maukapuu_static.home 10.8.0 Darwin Kernel Version 10.8.0: Tue
Jun  7 16:32:41 PDT 2011; root:xnu-1504.15.3~1/RELEASE_X86_64 x86_64
i386 MacPro5,1 Darwin

file `which grdimage`
/global/gmt/bin/grdimage: Mach-O 64-bit x86_64 executable

On Wed, Feb 12, 2014 at 1:24 PM, andrealphus <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi Paul,
>
> Yea I didnt think converting the grid to an nd would do anything, but
> knowing I'm running a 64 bit kernel, and a 64 bit grdview executable,
> I started looking for anything.
>
> Yup, I'm aware of the large memory issues - I'm ok with it (so is my
> system......errr....usually).
>
>
>
> On Wed, Feb 12, 2014 at 11:51 AM, Paul Wessel <[email protected]> wrote:
>> For got to say that given your -J -E settings, regardless of what memory is required to just read your grid into memory, the implied r/g/b array for the image that is also allocated would be close to 8Gb of memory alone. [ 3 x (35.4088 * 1250) x (50 * 1250)].
>> -p
>>
>> On Feb 12, 2014, at 6:08 AM, andrealphus <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> I've seen a few posts regarding this error, but nothing that seemed to
>>> relate....
>>>
>>> command;
>>>
>>> ...
>>> grdimage $GRD $region -JX35.4088i/50i -C$CPT -E1250 -Q -V -K -O >> $psfile
>>> ...
>>>
>>>
>>> it fails at this grdimage call if the resoultion is set to anything
>>> greater than 1000 (with the given media size, which is the same as the
>>> JX size).
>>>
>>> The grid its calling ($GRD) is large (17 gb), and I originally thought
>>> the issue was because it was a default .grd (format #18), which is 32
>>> bit, yes?
>>>
>>> I reformatted this to a netcdf double 64 bit (format #19), via;
>>>
>>> grdreformat -V ARCTIC_40m_PS_75N_xyz.grd ARCTIC_40m_PS_75N_xyz_64b.nd=nd
>>>
>>> And tried the above grdimage call again......same error.
>>>
>>> Any idea?
>>>
>>> -ashton
>>>
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